WET WALK

Fiji house to go dry

by Sarah Wigdalski and

Michelle Olney

THE POST

Riding the wave of a national trend to heighten awareness of underage alcohol consumption, all collegiate fraternity chapters of Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) have reported their houses will be substance free by 2000.

In April Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which does not have a chapter house, announced it would be dry. But the Fijis are the first OU fraternity with a house to adopt the policy, which will prohibit alcohol consumption in the fraternity house, 20 S. College St.

Joel Rudy, dean of students and vice president for student affairs, said several fraternities across the nation are making a sincere effort to raise awareness about underage alcohol consumption.

"It won't surprise me if the entire university goes substance free by the year 2000," said Joel Rudy, dean of students and vice president for student affairs. "There seems to be a national movement toward substance-free living."

The nation recently turned its eyes to underage drinking among fraternity members after the death of one Louisiana State University Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pledge and the hospitalization of three others.


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